Anatole France

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Penguin Island

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Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault; 1844-1924. Member of the Academie Francaise. Awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1921. Penguin Island (1908) has been called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer). The story takes place in Antarctica, where a fictional penguin population mirrors the foibles of human beings. With the devil's help, a missionary arrives in Antartica and baptizes the local penguins. With God's help, he then turns them into human beings. As a result, the penguins must now try to figure out how to live together and create a civilization. They experience their own barbaric Ancient Times and Middle Ages, and in their efforts to create a modern age, they undergo social conflicts and devastating wars. Written in the spirit of rationalism and enlightenment, Penguin Island is a wickedly funny, incisive portrait of religious fanatacism.

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PENGUIN ISLAND

BOOK I. THE BEGINNINGS

I. LIFE OF SAINT MAEL

II. THE APOSTOLICAL VOCATION OF SAINT MAEL

III. THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT MAEL

IV. ST. MAEL'S NAVIGATION ON THE OCEAN OF ICE

V. THE BAPTISM OF THE PENGUINS

VI. AN ASSEMBLY IN PARADISE

VII. AN ASSEMBLY IN PARADISE (Continuation and End)

VIII. METAMORPHOSIS OF THE PENGUINS

BOOK II. THE ANCIENT TIMES

I. THE FIRST CLOTHES

II. THE FIRST CLOTHES (Continuation and End)

III. SETTING BOUNDS TO THE FIELDS AND THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY

IV. THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF THE ESTATES OF PENGUINIA

V. THE MARRIAGE OF KRAKEN AND ORBEROSIA

VI. THE DRAGON OF ALCA

VII. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

VIII. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

IX. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

X. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

XI. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

XII. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

XIII. THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation and End)

BOOK III. THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE

I. BRIAN THE GOOD AND QUEEN GLAMORGAN

II. DRACO THE GREAT (Translation of the Relics of St. Orberosia)

III. QUEEN CRUCHA

IV. LETTERS: JOHANNES TALPA

V. THE ARTS: THE PRIMITIVES OF PENGUIN PAINTING

VI. MARBODIUS

VII. SIGNS IN THE MOON

BOOK IV. MODERN TIMES: TRINCO

I. MOTHER ROUQUIN

II. TRINCO

III. THE JOURNEY OF DOCTOR OBNUBILE

BOOK V. MODERN TIMES: CHATILLON

I. THE REVEREND FATHERS AGARIC AND CORNEMUSE

II. PRINCE CRUCHO

III. THE CABAL

IV. VISCOUNTESS OLIVE

V. THE PRINCE DES BOSCENOS

VI. THE EMIRAL'S FALL

VII. CONCLUSION

BOOK VI. MODERN TIMES.

THE AFFAIR OF THE EIGHTY THOUSAND TRUSSES OF HAY

I. GENERAL GREATAUK, DUKE OF SKULL

II. PYROT

III. COUNT DE MAUBEC DE LA DENTDULYNX

IV. COLOMBAN

V. THE REVEREND FATHERS AGARIC AND CORNEMUSE

VI. THE SEVEN HUNDRED PYROTISTS

VII. BIDAULT-COQUILLE AND MANIFLORE, THE SOCIALISTS

VIII. THE COLOMBAN TRIAL

IX. FATHER DOUILLARD

X. MR. JUSTICE CHAUSSEPIED

XI. CONCLUSION

BOOK VII. MODERN TIMES

I. MADAME CLARENCE'S DRAWING-ROOM

II. THE CHARITY OF ST. ORBEROSIA

III. HIPPOLYTE CERES

IV. A POLITICIAN'S MARRIAGE

V. THE VISIRE CABINET

VI. THE SOFA OF THE FAVOURITE

VII. THE FIRST CONSEQUENCES

VIII. FURTHER CONSEQUENCES

IX. THE FINAL CONSEQUENCES

BOOK VIII. FUTURE TIMES

THE ENDLESS HISTORY

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